Seven Layer Pasta Salad
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Picnic together with potluck flavor has simply met it's build novel arm candy:
The 7 layer salad.
Avocados tossed amongst lime together with salt, lovely ham steak, fresh broccoli florets, whole wheat pasta, crispy lettuce, cheddar cheese cubes, together with juicy tomatoes. All beautifully adorned amongst the most heavenly herbed white dressing. This salad is such a win, I can't fifty-fifty intend straight.
At starting fourth dimension it pulls y'all inwards past times it's await alone. The colors were simply plenty to moisture our whistle, together with I felt every bit though it would live on a offense to dig inwards for lunch/dinner. But I'm glad I didn't set it off to long - the gustation is actually what stole the show. There's simply something together with then brilliant together with fresh amongst that uncomplicated dressing. It was non only soft inwards taste, but had it's ain exceptional agency of showing off the best side of each salad ingredient.
I made a duad physical changes to the recipe. I idea cubed cheese would live on a fun echo of the cubed ham, versus using the cheese inwards shredded form. Also, I used whole wheat pasta, instead of white flour farfalle. As for the broccoli, I didn't throw it into the pasta H2O every bit prescribed, but left it inwards it's beautifully raw form. Broccoli has a vogue of haemorrhage its flavor into whatever it touches. I wanted the balance of the salad to bring a fighting change, together with loved the squash it added on a bed of the other soft ingredients.
7-Layer Pasta Salad
makes nigh 8 servings
ingredients:
kosher salt
8 ounces of pasta (I used whole wheat rotini)
2 stalks broccoli
2 avocados, diced
12 oz ham steak, diced (about 2 cups)
8 oz mild cheddar cheese, diced
1 modest caput romaine lettuce, chopped
2 tomatoes, diced
Juice from 1 lime, separated
1/2 C mayonnaise
1/2 C buttermilk
1/4 C + 1 T fresh chives, chopped
1/4 C fresh parsley, chopped
method:
1. Bring a large pot of salted H2O to boil, add together pasta together with gear upwardly according to directions on the package. Drain together with rinse. Set aside.
2. Make dressing: In a mini nutrient processor, blend together mayo, buttermilk, 1/4 C chives together with parsley, one-half the lime juice, 1/4 t common salt together with pepper to taste. Add nigh 2 tablespoons of the dressing to the pasta together with toss. Set aside.
3. Assemble the salad: Toss avocados amongst remaining lime juice together with flavor amongst salt. Place inwards bottom of a large drinking glass dish inwards an fifty-fifty layer. Next, layer the balance of the ingredients: ham, broccoli, pasta, lettuce, cheese, together with tomato. I tried to dissever the greenish ingredients amongst the other layers, but y'all tin layer it whatsoever agency y'all please, really. If serving immediately, drizzle amongst some of the remaining dressing (as much or niggling every bit desired) together with sprinkle amongst remaining chives. If serving later, shop the dressing separately, together with drizzle later. Can live on refrigerated upwardly to half-dozen hours - remember, those avocados can't rest fresh together with greenish forever.
Recipe adapted from: the nutrient network magazine, 2013
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